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Technical-scientific progress has brought a keener awareness that the most powerful transformations affecting the citizen in the 21st century provide new forms of dwelling, reinventing the sense of relationship, questioning democracy based on questions and dimensions which coessential to it, highlighting particularly human rights, civic participation, and freedom of speech. This paper intends to reflect on some assumptions, consequences and challenges facing democracy and human rights in an era experiencing unprecedented technological development. We will first focus on the concept of technopolis and then revisit the Principle of Responsibility of Hans Jonas, identifying the ethical assumptions that serve to address a technological civilization. Thirdly, we intend to identify some of the challenges information and communication technologies pose to the common citizen, highlighting difficulties and identifying the frailties that the path of scientific and technological progress has not been able to resolve, despite all the speeches and expectations. The construction of a truly inclusive information society for all the citizens of the City-World, a society that can banish the digital divide or, at least, narrow the gap separating the technologically more advanced countries from others, safeguarding privacy and the promotion of civic participation in all spheres that affect individuals in a globalised world, are fundamental issues that need to be addressed within human rights. The paper ends with a reflection on human rights in a technological society, a networked society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Studies suggest that, among treatment orientations for treatment of diabetes, diet has been the one with the least adhesion. This study aimed to compare the effects of self-monitoring practice on the behavior adhesion of two types of nutritional rule (Food Planning [FP] and Total Carbohydrate Counting -- [TCC]) in four adults with Type 2 diabetes. In home interview was the data collection procedure. After characterization of the baseline (BL) in eating behavior of the four participants, two of them were subjected to Training Condition A (Self-Monitoring with PA followed by TCC), the other two participants to Training Condition B (Self-Monitoring with TCC followed by PA), and follow-up interviews with all four participants. As adhesion measures, Glycated hemoglobin and the Adherence Index to the Diet (AID) shown in percentages were used. It was observed on the participants' BL that the AIDs of all participants were below 50%, increasing after the self-monitoring training, regardless of their condition, being the average from TCC (75,50%) greater than that of FP (62,49%), declining afterwards in both conditions. It was also observed that the Glycated hemoglobin values in three participants had been reduced. The paper discusses the importance of nutritionists in prescribing individualized treatment and beyond the focus of the disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims at investigating the Gramscian construction of the concepts of State and civil society within the Quaderni del carcere. By means of a genetic-diachronic reading, which emphasizes the fragmentary character of this work, the sources to which resorts its author and the time period of its production, it is sought the revaluation of the unitary and organic character of Gramsci's thought. Therefore, it is possible to found an understanding of the civil society and the political society (the State strictu sensu/) in which these distinct terms do not have an antagonistic relationship, as stated by a hegemonic reading of this work and rather a relationship of unity-distinction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Milton Hatoum was born in 1952 in Manaus. His family was Lebanese. He studied architecture at São Paulo University and literature in Barcelone and Paris. He is a French literature professor at Amazonas University. His two novels: Relato de um certo Oriente (1989) and Dois Irmãos (2000), won the prestigious Jabuti Prize. The city of Manaus surrounded by the rainforest and habitants from everywhere, is the central theme in both novels. In this paper we analyze the meanings of the rainforest and the scholarly trajectory of the Dois Irmãos characters. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]